The Wrestlers Tanikaze Kajinosuke and Onogawa Kisaburo with the Referee Kimura Shonosuke

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Meech, Julia. "Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Architect's Other Passion." New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Japan Society, New York, 2001.
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• Marks, Andreas. "Japanese Woodblock Prints (1680-1938)." Cologne: TASCHEN, 2019. pp. 176-177, 620, no. 50
• Marks, Andreas. "The (Almost) Complete Hokusai." Taschen, 2024. p. 56
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 311

• Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016
• Summer Breeze: The Fan in Japanese Prints: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/7/2012–9/9/2012
• Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints, The: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/7/1990–11/25/1990

• Asia
• Prints
• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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